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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (131)	8/28/2003 10:38:35 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) of 150

Internet news is gaining in popularity while users of conventional media, such as TV and newspapers, are declining. It's been going on for a long time. Only Fox News train-wreck and Limbaugh type hate-radio gains viewers, and even then only relative to the other declining networks, since all are losing their credibility as they become centralized: autopr.org instituteforpr.com It's been going on for years aba.gov.au "Various studies and polls suggest declining public opinion for the credibility of news and current affairs services. “The annual Morgan poll of professional honesty and ethics shows Australians consistently rate newspaper journalists at the same level as politicians, car salesmen, real estate agents and advertising people” (Fyfe, 2000, on-line)." mndaily.com Abroad as well rsf.fr "reveals increasing disquiet within the profession over eroding standards of professional conduct. "Something important has changed in journalism," write Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, both former award-winning reporters, and Amy Mitchell, associate director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, in a commentary on the survey results. "Not only is the public increasingly disaffected from the press. Journalists now agree that something is wrong with their profession." washingtonpost.com

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